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> why is -b the flag for key length in ssh-keygen? Because the length is given in "bits". I get your point, but that's a terrible example! :-)

• Klathmon 11y ago
  Now that you've said that, i'll never forget it again (although what the hell does -t stand for then?) But the point is that even though it's most likely "my fault" for not reading the manual correctly (i'm not saying you were implying that, but often i do feel that it's ultimately because of my laziness that i have these problems), they aren't "intuitive" in the sense that that you can just pick it up and go. The one thing my "dream linux" system would borrow from powershell is the tab-completion for flags and sub-commands. If i could type `git ` and hit tab and see a list of what is possible (with a quick one-sentence explanation of that sub-command) it would completely turn my experience around. But even that takes "domain knowledge" that tab auto-completes... This stuff is hard!
  • Rebelgecko 11y ago
    >The one thing my "dream linux" system would borrow from powershell is the tab-completion for flags and sub-commands You might want to check out some alternative shells: The fish shell does this out of the box, it's really nice. For something more bash-like, I think zsh can too (but you might have to set it up in a config file)
  • phaemon 11y ago
    > Now that you've said that, i'll never forget it again (although what the hell does -t stand for then?) The "type" of key. :D It would be nice to have a more fully featured auto-complete and it is feasible to do. I'd hope that it's the kind of thing that gnu-utils could get a standard for that other tools could just provide a completion script, rather than each shell having to do its own. Maybe someone's already working on it.